Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Stories around the web

For example, there is a
single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma gondii, which is found in domestic
cats, and is estimated to infect 350,000 people a year in Britain. Its
effect on humans became the obsession of Jaroslav Flegr, professor of
evolutionary biology at Charles University in Prague, who linked it with
disturbed behaviours such as reckless driving and a greater risk of suicide.

and there is no Israeli blockade of Gaza: Hundreds of trucks full of goods enter Gaza from Israel each
day but it is Hamas that refuses to allow more. Many more trucks enter
via the one legal route from Egypt and Hamas restricts the number coming
here as well. All this is to enable Hamas to collect more taxes (from
goods smuggled through the tunnels) and get weapons and wanted criminals
(as in Islamic terrorists) into Gaza. The tunnels also allow Hamas to
move whatever they want in or out of Gaza without any government
interference or observation.

Reg readers in the Leamington Spa area are asked to keep an
eye out for a knitted hedgehog which may have fallen from the skies
thereabouts, and is currently the focus of a frantic search and rescue
operation.CASSiE
(Cosmic Ambassador for Space Science and Engineering), aka the Cosmic
Hedgehog, was sent aloft last Friday on a balloon mission, accompanying
70 student scientific projects into the stratosphere.
Unfortunately, mission control lost contact with the payload on its descent, and is now calling on the public for assistance: